[Idea] Zerg Armory Mechanic

[Bobo]

The idea is great.
It could be even more expanded... but the basic thought is brilliant couse it would allow player's unique build and playstyle.

Hope they read this. Maybe you'll become "the zerg evolution mechanic" prophet. Why not?

[Triceron]

Isn't this a talent tree?

[Bisso]

Wait, what did I miss, we are now speculating on a the second part of a game that the first part is 1 year away since 2007?

My speculation is that the mechanic will look like buying a new wheel chair for Jim Raynor cause he is 93.

[Visions of Khas]

Hmm, I wouldn't be adverse to having "talent trees"/broods for each mission. It would make each mission unique. This could expand even further on divergent campaign paths. "Y'know, I really want this to happen, so this brood would be best suited for achieving my aims." It could completely alter the gameplay of every mission.

Brilliant!

I was always somewhat saddened that the individual brood (and factions and tribes) weren't explored in-game. While the Protoss campaign will see you fused disparate forces, the Zerg will be the inverse.

[flak4321]

While I like the basic premises of this idea, what we've been shown so far is a mechanic that opens units and upgrades depending on levels chosen to complete and cash received upon completion. This would work for Zerg, except we would have to subsitute something like "Kerrigan's permission points" for cash. Note that the direction stated by Archer and in his Browder quote are seemingly for the story arc more so than the unit development. That said, I could handle this idea for the Zerg campaign and would like broods with unique uses, but I feel it might detract or distract from the RTS roots of the game.

[Triceron]

I'm pretty sure the singleplayer aspect of SC2 is moving away from its RTS roots and trying to open up as much interesting gameplay as possible. This is especially the case when you look at Warcraft 3 and how those missions reflected Hero-driven gameplay, I would assume that this is what they'd want to do with Kerrigan in Heart of the Swarm.

[Visions of Khas]

I think the Zerg gameplay would be most like WarCraft. Individual Heroes may evolve -- "level up" -- through the course of the campaign, and Kerrigan may need to conduct many "specialized" missions, eg kidnapping terran or protoss officials to extract from them information crucial to continued evolution and expansion. I would also love to see more covert ops-style missions -- impersonating leaders from other races with Changelings and making them devolve into civil wars and stuff. That would be epic.

@Flak: That system is only being implemented for the Terran campaign. We already know those mechanics won't be [as] applicable to the Zerg and Protoss campaigns, as Browder and co. have admitted.